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How to have a truly happy new year.

For the first time in years, I don’t remember my New Year’s resolution from January. Usually, I write it down in my journal or on a note I stick to my mirror. There’s been many of those dog-eared sticky notes from years past. The year of contentment. Speaking life. We passed pancakes across the breakfast table on January 1st this year. “What do you want from 2018?” I can’t remember my answer. I know what I didn’t want though. I didn’t want to walk into her office and share the parts of my life I’m inclined to hide. I didn’t want to Facetime her the day after she delivered her baby that never breathed. I didn’t want to spend four months wondering how I’d walk into her house on Christmas day and see her empty chair. I didn’t want to go on another first date that led nowhere. We sit across from each other in a little coffee shop in Colorado, picking at a charcuterie board. “When I think about all of the things I have left to go through,” her voice cracks....
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Faith is not Fluffy

My parents text me and say that winter has made a guest appearance on their farm, thrown its’ white coat onto the ground and made itself quite at home. I look through the cracks in my blind, from my room in the city, at the green grass and the cloudless sky. The sun glints off the cars driving past. I don't fully believe them until they text me a picture of the snow-covered ground. 

That’s what he says to us that night as we lean back in the squeaking chairs in a basement classroom on the campus of my university; he says that unbelief is the main problem. We all want to see Jesus raise Lazarus from the dead. We want someone to print out a three-pound book of historical evidence that the Bible is true. We want the guy with the letters after his name to sit us down and walk us through the logic for Christianity. We forget that these things have been done and we still don’t believe.

The problem for our doubt is not lack of evidence, but lack of faith. Isn’t it the strangest thing that we can have the truth laid out before us in perfect order and still dismiss it?
            
Like this…
            
I doubt that God can answer prayer and then, after much prayer, He saves the life of this girl in the hospital who was at the last stop, or so we thought, before death. And six months later, He saves the life of this man whose heart rate rose above the normal digits. Still, I’m wondering, some mornings, if my prayers do anything.
            
Faith is not a fluffy notion.
            
Ephesians 6:16 “Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.”
            
Faith is a good defence. It’s something on which one can get a firm grip and hold up securely in battle.
            
God said.
            
That’s enough. That’s all I need to know.




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